Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts
2nd Edition
By Ellis Cashmore
Published May 23rd 2008 by Routledge – 514 pages
Series: Routledge Key Guides
Description
Now including exercise psychology terms for the first time in its second edition, Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers a highly accessible introduction to this fascinating subject, its central theories and state-of-the-art research. Over 300 alphabetically-ordered entries cover such diverse terms as:
- adherence
- aggression
- emotion
- exercise dependence
- home advantage
- kinesiphobia
- left-handedness
- motivation
- retirement
- self-confidence.
Cross-referenced, with suggestions for further reading and a full index, this latest key guide contains invaluable advice on the psychology of sport and exercise. A comprehensive A-Z guide to a fast-moving field of inquiry, this book is an essential resource for scholars, coaches, trainers, journalists, competitors, exercisers; in fact anyone associated with sport and exercise.
Contents
Anorexia Nervosa. Extreme Sports. Fear of Failure. Giftedness. Group Orientation. Focus. Halo Effect. Integrated Regulation. Kinesthesia. Metacognition. Motor Reaction. Self-Actualization. Trans-Gender. Yerkes-Dodson Law. Weight-Control. Yoga
Name: Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts: 2nd Edition (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: By Ellis Cashmore. Now including exercise psychology terms for the first time in its second edition, Sport and Exercise Psychology: The Key Concepts offers a highly accessible introduction to this fascinating subject, its central theories and state-of-the-art research...
Categories: Sport Psychology, Sport and Exercise Science, Sport and Leisure Studies
